Activists burn tires and warm themselves at a barricade in the center of Kiev, Ukraine. Talks between the opposition and President Viktor Yanukovych failed Thursday to end Ukraine's crisis, but an uneasy truce was holding after five days of deadly clashes between protesters and security forces.

A Central African police officer guards a suspect arrested after members of a Christian militia looted houses and shops belonging to Muslims in the capital of Bangui. The Central African Republic's new interim president, Catherine Samba Panza, was sworn in Thursday and is tasked with ending horrific sectarian violence.

An Egyptian firefighter checks a crater created by a blast at the Egyptian police headquarters in downtown Cairo. Three bombings hit high-profile areas around the capital on Friday, including a suicide car bomber who struck the city's police headquarters, killing several people. The bombings were the first major attack on Cairo as insurgents step up a campaign of violence after the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.

Syrian children walk through a street as they bring food back to their families in the northeastern city of Deir Ezzor. Nearly 1,400 people have been killed in Syria since clashes between rebel forces and the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant erupted this month, a monitor said.

Pictures in the News | January 24, 2014

Friday’s Pictures in the News begins on stage at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles, where performers are rehearsing for Sunday’s Grammy Awards show. In neighboring Inglewood, what’s left of the shuttered Hollywood Park racetrack goes up for auction, including the scale that was used to weigh jockeys in the winning circle.

Kiev, Ukraine: Activists burn tires and warm themselves at a barricade in the center of Kiev. Talks between the opposition and President Viktor Yanukovych failed Thursday to end Ukraine’s crisis, but an uneasy truce was holding after five days of deadly clashes between protesters and security forces. More photos

Bangui, Central African Republic: A police officer guards a looter arrested after members of a Christian militia looted houses and shops belonging to Muslims in the capital of Bangui.

Cairo: Three bombings hit high-profile areas around Cairo on Friday, including a suicide car bomber who struck the city’s police headquarters, killing several people. The bombings were the first major attack on the Egyptian capital as insurgents step up a campaign of violence after the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.

Beijing: A worker hangs a lantern at a park in Beijing to welcome the Lunar New Year of the Horse, which falls on Jan. 31.

Add stops in Canada, Australia, Germany, Japan, Tunisia and Syria to round out the report.